A Baker City man is accused of kicking a Baker City Police officer in the head and arm, and trying to bite two officers, during an incident Thursday night, Jan. 9.

Jacob David Thomas Smith, 34, was taken to the Baker County Jail on multiple charges, including assault a public safety officer, a Class C felony. He was later released from jail after posting $5,500 bail, but rearrested on March 3 for violation conditions of his release. As of April 1, Smith remained in the jail on $75,000 bail. He could be released by posting 10% of that amount. Smith is scheduled to have a trial readiness hearing on April 22 at 1:30 p.m. in Baker County Circuit Court. A trial is scheduled for April 28-29.

Smith is also charged with two counts of attempting to assault a public safety officer, resisting arrest and second-degree disorderly conduct, all Class A misdemeanors, and second-degree disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor.

According to a probable cause affidavit written by Baker City Police officer Mason Powell, the incident started around 9:18 p.m. when an employee at the Geiser Grand Hotel called police to report an intoxicated man who “was being aggressive, yelling and racist towards him and other people in the establishment.”

The man was identified as Smith, and he left the hotel, according to Mason’s affidavit.

About 20 minutes later, a resident called 911 stating that a man was “screaming crazily” outside her home in the 1300 block of Elm Street, near its intersection with Grace and Estes streets.

The woman, who was home with her children, told Powell she was scared enough to “obtain a gun.”

Powell wrote in his affidavit that he had seen Smith walking south near Resort Street and Auburn Avenue minutes before the woman’s call.

Around 9:14 p.m., about 37 minutes after the woman’s 911 call, another caller reported seeing a man who matched Smith’s description “jumping/stomping on utility boxes and trying to tear down a stop sign near Resort and Valley.”

Powell wrote that while he was searching for Smith, two men stopped him in the 1700 block of Washington Avenue, in front of the Baker Garage dealership, and told him that a man who matched Smith’s description had been screaming and throwing the dealership’s advertising flags into the street.

Powell wrote that he saw multiple flags in the streeet and on the sidewalk.

At about 9:25 p.m. he saw Smith on the sidewalk in the 1700 block of Washington. Powell wrote that he parked his patrol car in front of Smith, got out and told Smith “he was under arrest numerous times.”

Powell wrote that Smith ignored him and kept walking.

Powell wrote that he grabbed Smith, took him to the ground and handcuffed him. Smith then “started screaming, threatening my life, kicking and trying to stand up,” Powell wrote.

Powell wrote that he told Smith to stay on the ground, but Smith “raised a leg up and kicked me in the right side of the head and right arm, causing multiple areas of bruiding, discoloration and light abrasions on my bicep and forearm area.”

Powell wrote that he “delivered a closed fist strike to (Smith’s) chin area and he stopped resisting.

Powell then drove Smith to the emergency room at Saint Alphonsus Medical Center. There, Smith “became verbally combative and was actively walking around,” Powell wrote.

He wrote that Smith threatened to kill him and tried to bite Powell multiple times.

Powell wrote that another officer, Koby Essex, arrived to help, and that Smith tried to bite Essex.

According to court records, on Oct. 26, 2024, Smith allegedly fled from Powell, who tried to arrest Smith for violating a restraining oder in Baker City.

Powell later arrested Smith. That charge is still pending.

Smith was released from the Baker County Jail on Oct. 30.

On Friday morning, Jan. 10, Michael Spaulding, chief deputy district attorney, filed a motion seeking to revoke that release agreement based on the charges from the Jan. 9 incident.